Hello, nice to meet you, on Meeting Benches. Its benches topics are open to contributions from anyone, but one where we are now sitting is called “library” where you can leave or find a book, or a review of a book. As you can see, today I have in my hand a novel by an Italian writer, but I must …

It is on a rocky outcrop in the woods of the Little Carpathians, in an area that maintains its long tradition of wine-growing. It is a village easily accessible from Bratislava, its name is Červený Kameň (Red Stone), and has its own castle, the one built by Italian architects of the Board of Auditors Palffi. The Castle is open every …

What was your last important trip? When you’re back home, you still had the certainty of departure, or you are immersed in the journey, to search for that part of you that you did not know she yet? You do not like Ulysses, as he was returning home in the same clothes he left, with his eyes the memory of …

From the diary-atlanteillustrato TRAVEL IN ITALY, publisher Meeting Benches (e-book format, available in Italian language and English). A painter of the Italian Renaissance, born in Tuscany in 1420, a pupil of Fra Angelico, has long lived in Florence, by decorating  the church of San Marco. Like many painters of that period, he also was in Rome, by decorating a chapel …

JOURNEY IN HELL: “She begins Dante’s Alighieri, of Florence, Divine Comedy, in which he deals with the penalties and punishments, of defects and merits, rewards and virtues. It begins with the first canticle of the first, the part which is called Hell, in which the author makes introduction to the entire work.” In the middle of the journey of our life, …

GAVARNIE , COLISEUM OF NATURE Gavarnie is a French commune of 142 inhabitants, located in the region of Midi- Pyrenees. More than for the settlement, which has only about a hundred people, the place is famous for its location and for the many natural wonders of the municipal territory, especially the famous Cirque de Gavarnie. Victor Hugo wrote of this unique …

PARK UNDER THE MIDNIGHT SUN The Norwegian Government has requested that the cost was reduced to gain access to, and a ticket now costs one euro (about 200 Norwegian kroner), but along with the Midnight Sun, the visitor can observe the promontory of Nordkapp also the Globe, iron, seven stone medallions depicting children in the world and the nearby sculpture …

THE GATES OF PARADISE Has been declared by UNESCO a world heritage of humanity. Has been safeguarded by the state of Venezuela as a protected national park, the largest in the world for its size. His name is Parque Nacional Canaima, but those who had the good fortune to cross his door, he realized that the earthly Paradise had to be …

IRISH JEWELS The most precious jewels in Ireland, is the Time. The Irish believe that when God made ​​time, he has done enough. This is what we understand by visiting the Emerald Isle, this is what tourists can look over the serene and smiling face of any Irishman. Returning home, any visitor will be stored in their own eyes the …